This photo was sent my way by someone who knows I work in #food security. I don’t know where it was taken or who deserves credit. (The tickets appear to name a pub).
But I’d sure love to see this kindness replicated. Widely. It’s critically needed & warms my heart. ❤️
DriftlessRoots
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •kfet
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •I don’t get it.
I’m thinking all those would have had way more effect going to a food bank. Or taxes, in the case of a sane gov.
Here we see a restaurant profiting off the charity of people, on top of some of those meals likely never getting used up at all.
Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •Raph Levien
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •Comments are not encouraging at all, suggesting this was a cheap publicity stunt. https://www.reddit.com/r/ontario/comments/1b9wckj/nelson_street_pub_in_pembroke/
The place appears to be closed down now.
Bodling
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •maybe at the Nelson Street Pub in Pembroke, Ontario, Canada. 29 November 2023. By then the idea was catching on elsewhere, BUT the pub owner is quoted saying "he came up with the idea after he saw an American restaurant post about a similar initiative on social media."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/restaurants-meal-donations-ottawa-valley-1.7031660
Carolyn
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •It is really easy to look these things up to make sure they are properly attributed.
https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/deachman-everyone-needs-a-hot-meal-pay-it-forward-pembroke-restaurant-is-making-it-easy-to-help-others
Ottawa Citizen
Ottawa Citizenclimate voter/eco leftist
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •raederle
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •知耻而未勇
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •当然，嘟文中图片所展示的“安排”，显然更为细心体贴。
哦，也有清真餐厅参加了这种善举。... show more
当然，嘟文中图片所展示的“安排”，显然更为细心体贴。
哦，也有清真餐厅参加了这种善举。
Liz❤💃
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •stevenray
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •Robbie 🇧🇪 :tux:
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •Ulf Dittmer
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •Meal paid for in advance by a stranger
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Testingsdfsdfsfgdsfyufs
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •Paul-Gabriel Wiener
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •Check out Bon Jovi's Soul Kitchen. (Yes, that Bon Jovi.) It's a casual sit-down restaurant. Anyone can come, be seated at a table, order whatever they want off the menu, and be treated like any other customer. If you can pay for the meal, great. If you can't, you can pay for it by helping out in the kitchen or waiting tables for a while. It's a non-profit. Four locations and growing.
https://jbjsoulkitchen.org/
quello che perde i pezzi
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •Plasmawiz
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •Whoever organised that is a beautiful soul.
Markus Palcer
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •https://gigatexal.blog -he/him
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •Café-Junkie
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •The World was never so rich (all together) as today. We COULD feed and house everyone.
But instead we are economically divided as never before:
https://wid.world/news-article/world-inequality-report-2022/
https://wid.world/news-article/whats-new-about-wealth-inequality-in-the-world/
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World Inequality Report 2022 - WID - World Inequality Database
WID - World Inequality DatabaseChristian Reinbacher
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •Canadian restaurant goes viral for new initiative allowing customers in need to eat for free
National Trending Staff (Daily Hive)Julia Clement
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •Air Adam
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •On the off-chance that anyone nearby sees this post, the cafe at the Inspire Centre in Levenshulme in Manchester runs a scheme just like this.
#Manchester
Rich
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •Shout out to Humble House in Golden, CO that does the same thing. If you browse the slips there you'll see people "paying it forward" for a wide variety of reasons: people who are hungry, people who are struggling with cancer, runaways who are alone, people who are lonely.
A small gesture of kindness from a stranger can have a profound effect on a person. I hope everyone is lucky enough to experience that.
Janet Grootebroeder
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •badwebsites
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